Best use of the imagination which prevents shooting out the TV ... crane falls on "Free Credit Report" band.
Best exposition of a parallel universe voting block ... Joshua Holland, describing your neighbors, whether you know them or not.
Best cattiness ... Tina Brown's choice for cover shot of Michele Bachmann for Newsweek.
Best doggedness ... Seal Team Six's now famous mission and learning that Usama loved him some wizzle.
Best con job ... "anyone but Romney." Piffle. Today's Romney (so-called) "offenses" will appeal to the (so-called) undecided.
Best line in this year's 12 Days of Christmas parody ... 12 deadlocked dummies
Best double entendre ... Santorum surge.
Best word-riff ... buttdensation (outhouse jargon).
Best test of disbelief ... Herman Cain for president.
Best new movie ... Anthony Weiner in "Saving Private Foto."
Best serving of justice ... what if Donald Trump threw a debate and no one came?
Best political writing ... Matt Taibbi.
Best Freudian slip ... suggestions that schoolboys clean toilets were widely received as Dickian
Best framing ... The Occupy Movement
Best "breaking news" ... after 21 days of being stranded in the mountains, we are restocked and able to use our road

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Glad you're able to get out from being housebound...have a safe New Year's Eve.
Happiest of times, my friend.
Marty's Husband - it came to me at the you know where.
jane smithie - last time this happened, we were heading out of January. I sure hope there's not another one of these triple whammies. People in a drought shouldn't curse the snow, but it sure got old quick. We're going to research keeping mountain roads passable.
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Have a great and safe New Year's Eve.